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Students attending Gelato U aim to build their gelaterias in far corners of the globe. They know that real gelato is a delicate thing that cannot survive being taken out and put back into a freezer, that it is best consumed where it is made. That's what Melissa Green, 36, an HR manager in Tampico, Ill., learned in September during her first trip to Italy, when she consumed her first gelato. After a few bites of green apple, a light went on, illuminating her future: "I tasted this, and I was like, We have got to bring this back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gelato U. | 11/9/2009 | See Source »

...darts all around the canvas, lightly defining swelling forms, with borders as thin as soap bubbles', just tight enough to create a sense of release when bursts of red or yellow pop them. You sense that this is the bouncing, eternal line of freedom and pleasure, one that traces back to the airborne arcs of those young women on swings in Fragonard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Arshile Gorky: The Shape Shifter | 11/9/2009 | See Source »

Colombia can only watch in angst and appeal to higher bodies such as the UN Security Council and the Organization of American States because it cannot simply back down to Chavez’s displeasure. The United States’s increasing presence in Colombia could not be the consequence of a more serious issue—contesting and fighting drug cartels, and drugs themselves, at one of their primary sources. Such action will provide a major boost to Colombia’s efforts to combat the forces of the drug cartels and increase the odds of reclaiming territories...

Author: By Alexander R. Konrad | Title: Chavez Can’t Shun the Spotlight | 11/9/2009 | See Source »

...final frame, the speed of play picked up and the Crimson and the Saints made it a more back-and-forth game. But Harvard still held the lead and seven minutes into the period the Crimson struck again. Sophomore forward Alisa Baumgartner made a pass to Buesser who put it past St. Lawrence’s goalie Maxie Weisz and into the top right corner of the goal to make it a 2-0 game...

Author: By Madeleine Smith, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Shutout Gives Harvard 500th Win | 11/9/2009 | See Source »

...course, indicate its political stance. Communism was not a foreign imposition in Moscow, unlike in Poland, where the Red Army’s presence there after the Second World War played a large role in installing a communist government. It’s not unreasonable that Russians should look back on their past with mixed feelings, at least. However, the divergent views in East and West about the communist past point to a more significant difference in each region’s dealings with present-day Russia...

Author: By Ellen C. Bryson | Title: And the Wall Came Tumblin’ Down | 11/9/2009 | See Source »

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